Most of the IT people I know, myself included, like our hidey-holes and spaces to make our own. We collaborate in ad-hoc meetings. Open spaces at a large table? Nah. I wouldn’t like it at all. And we don’t need everyone’s business spilling into our work day. We need time to get work done, in our hidey-holes.
Don't know how anyone can debug code when you have a dozen people around you chatting and breathing down your neck...